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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Jul 23, 2009

Sitting on a purple amaranth leaf, hopefully dining on flea beetles.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jul 23, 2009

This is indeed an assassin bug nymph, perhaps that of the spiny assassin bug, Sinea diadema - see http://tinyurl.com/kt8e9l

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Jul 24, 2009

Thanks!
It was well disguised as a hunk of dried up leaf debris. not much more than a quarter inch.

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